yogini
योगिनी yoginiA class of fierce, powerful female deities central to some Tantric, especially Kaula, traditions.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
The Yogini Tantra links Kamakhya to Kali and extols the yoni as supreme.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
There is no single classification of Tantra. The tradition produced several, each fixed in datable Sanskrit texts: the five *srotas* or streams of scripture,…
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
It lives in the yogini temples of medieval India, roofless circles of stone open to the sky, where sixty-four goddesses once stood ranged around the edge.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…y, Politics, and Power (2003), and David Gordon White, in Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts (2003).
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
The ritual is therefore called navavarana puja , which Brooks renders as the worship which overcomes the nine obstacles. Named goddesses called yoginis occupy the circuits.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Born of a yogini His father was Narasimhagupta, known in the family by the affectionate name Cukhulaka, a learned man whose heart, Abhinavagupta writes, was adorned with devotion to Maheshvara, the great lord S…
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
It is circular, open to the sky, and ringed on the inside with images of yoginis.
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
It was a Kaula rite, a gathering of a circle of male initiates and yoginis , women understood as embodiments of the Goddess's powers, with what Sanderson describes as a strongly orgiastic character.